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. >> where in china do you make the mattresses? >> we're in china, i don't think so. >> third generation, her grandfather was a mattress equipment salesman for chicago who came to san francisco with his brother in 1898. if they were to visit the factory on minnesota street today, those brothers would be proud to see the company still going strong. >> the benefit of doing it ourselves is that we're in charge of the quality. >> easy to say, not so easy to do. they say they make their mattresses from scratch in america, they mean it. beginning with the cotton they blend it into bedding to the bed coils that begin as wire and then turned and bent and twisted by a machine and finished by a former street sweeper. >> all handmade. >> translated they build mattresses the old-fashioned way same as they always have as they have made them for a century. >> it's definitely old school. when a customer calls for information on a sale they consult the catalog they are going everything in 15 seconds. when did they go to computers. >> we started in
. >> where in china do you make the mattresses? >> we're in china, i don't think so. >> third generation, her grandfather was a mattress equipment salesman for chicago who came to san francisco with his brother in 1898. if they were to visit the factory on minnesota street today, those brothers would be proud to see the company still going strong. >> the benefit of doing it ourselves is that we're in charge of the quality. >> easy to say, not so easy to do. they...
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dams day believers exist everywhere but china has the highest percentage apparently. >> back here. cal-trans today appointed the first woman to be the state chief engineer. carla will be responsible for all engineering aspects of the department construction projects across the state. she will oversee 9,000 employees and annual budget of nearly 2 billion dollars. she has been with cal-trans for 26 years. >>> times person of the year will be known tomorrow but 2 ceo from silicon are among the fineist. yahoo and apple found e o are in the running. an cook replaced steve jobs last year when the former ceo passed away. the other 6 nominee include president obama. bill and hilary clinton. egyptian president morsi and undocumented americans. we shall find out tomorrow. >> come up. major step toward equity for women in the military. the decade long ban on its way toward being lifted. >> plus. i'm if sacramento. in response to the connecticut shooting state lawmakers introduced more gun control la laws. state treasurer wants to pull investment money from gun manufacturing firm wlichlt do yo
dams day believers exist everywhere but china has the highest percentage apparently. >> back here. cal-trans today appointed the first woman to be the state chief engineer. carla will be responsible for all engineering aspects of the department construction projects across the state. she will oversee 9,000 employees and annual budget of nearly 2 billion dollars. she has been with cal-trans for 26 years. >>> times person of the year will be known tomorrow but 2 ceo from silicon...
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internet users in china required to log on with the first and last name and list of forbidden web sthit already include facebook twitter and you tube has now been expanded. government is also ordering service providers to delete postings on message boards that might be viewed as critical of the chinese communist party. >> in maine law legalizing same sex marriage just went into effect about 30 minutes ago. city hall in portland opened at midnight give out the first marriage license. voters approved gay marriage in november in maine. similar law in maryland takes effect january 1st couple days from now. already legal in washington state. those 3 states were the if is to approve gay marriage by popular vote. >> just ahead here. details with the new year's resolution perhaps? guess what? there's an app for that. new back in the day, we didn't have the u-verse wireless receiver. [ light laugh ] the tv stayed in one place... mmmmhmmmm. ...right next to the upstairs tv outlet. oh yeah. they can move the tv all over the place, even outside. grandpa... mmmhmm? kids have it easy nowadays. [ glas
internet users in china required to log on with the first and last name and list of forbidden web sthit already include facebook twitter and you tube has now been expanded. government is also ordering service providers to delete postings on message boards that might be viewed as critical of the chinese communist party. >> in maine law legalizing same sex marriage just went into effect about 30 minutes ago. city hall in portland opened at midnight give out the first marriage license....
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. >> tragedy in central china today. man wield ago knife wounded 22 children and one adult as they were ha! rifling for elementary school. 2 seriously hurt. no known motive. however a string of similar assaults killed more than a dozen school children in 2010 and wounded more than 50 in china. >>> in san mateo county police say the driver of car that hit and killed 3 people will be charged with vehicular manslaughter. horrible scene today as you can see. he is 82 years old. sky 7 hd was over the scene of the accident on interstate 280 interredwood city just mangled cars. according to the chp the victims were changing a tire in the center divide black volkswagen swerved that them all 3 died at the scene. the driver of the volkswagen was taken to the hospital again he will face charges. traffic was backed up for miles. >>> former san francisco school worker spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping 3 women last year. frederick dozer sentenced to 3 73 years to life and ordered to pay more than 250,000 dollars in res
. >> tragedy in central china today. man wield ago knife wounded 22 children and one adult as they were ha! rifling for elementary school. 2 seriously hurt. no known motive. however a string of similar assaults killed more than a dozen school children in 2010 and wounded more than 50 in china. >>> in san mateo county police say the driver of car that hit and killed 3 people will be charged with vehicular manslaughter. horrible scene today as you can see. he is 82 years old. sky 7...